China has unveiled a long-term planetary exploration roadmap for planetary habitability and the search for extraterrestrial life. Released by the Deep Space Exploration Laboratory (DSEL), the roadmap outlines a series of upcoming and proposed missions targeting key destinations across the solar system.
China’s planetary habitability roadmap looks like this:
- Tianwen-3 Mars sample return (2028)
- Tianwen-4 Jupiter and Callisto orbiter (2029)
- Habitable Environments Simulator (2030)
- Venus atmospheric sampler return (2033)
- Mars Science Station (2038)
- Neptune orbiter mission (2039)
No Europa mission?
That Is a bummer, however (if you aren’t already aware) we do still have Europa Clipper to look forward too from NASA. It’s launched already but still a bit of a wait till the main science begins in 2030.
Hopefully it’s a very successful mission and we can learn a lot of new information and science about Europa. I absolutely love space competition between countries because space is fascinating and I want to learn and see all I can before I die, so I want every country to keep pushing and impressing the world. Trying to one up each other on new missions and their goals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_Clipper